Ethics of Codes and Codes of Ethics: When is it Ethical to Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Ethics of Codes and Codes of Ethics: When Is It Ethical to Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Piroska Kopar, MD, FACS
Department of Surgery, Center for Humanism and Ethics in Surgical Specialties (CHESS), Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

Douglas Brown, PhD
Department of Surgery, Center for Humanism and Ethics in Surgical Specialties (CHESS), Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO

Isaiah Turnbull, MD, PhD
Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Annals of Surgery, October 2020